Lady Macbeth
Drugging and smearing guards with blood, this Lady has a plan to help her husband with a gruesome deed.
Who is Lady Macbeth helping kill king Duncan?
The reason Macbeth killed two guards ... or so he says.
What is fury / anger / revenge for King Duncan's murder?
The two sons of King Duncan, King of Scotland, who flee after their father's murder in the second act of the play.
Who are Malcolm and Donalbain?
This island, considered exotic by the English viewers of the time, is the central location where the play takes place.
What is Scotland?
This group of kin, often found around a cauldron "boil(ing) toil and trouble", or "upon the heath": prophesize titles, the end of wars, and later evoke the spirit of a Greek goddess from the underworld.
Who are the witches / weird sisters?
The deadly sin Lady Macbeth is probably most guilty of.
What is greed?
This prince of Cumberland is given much more than a title when his father names him heir to the throne of Scotland in Act. sc.
Who is Malcolm?
The name of Banquo's only son that flees from death.
Who is Fleance?
This is the language spoken by Shakespeare and used in their plays ... It is not what you'd call geriatric.
What is Early Modern English?
What are the witches doing at the beginning of Act 4?
What is They are making a brew and waiting for Macbeth.
Act II sc. ii Lady Macbeth's reasoning for not doing this gruesome act; citing "Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done't".
What is killing King Duncan herself?
This title is taken from a traitor and given to Macbeth after feats of heroic gore on the battle field.
What is Thane of Cawdor?
This Scottish lord and Thane of Fife- who's name is eerily similar to the murderous Macbeth- becomes the hero of the story after ending a reign of terror with a fight and beheading.
Who is Macduff?
This literary term is used to describe the main idea of a text. It is turned into a factual phrase, supported by evidence and a specific Point Of View.
What is a thematic statemen?
*BONUS for an example
These apparitions are conjured by Macbeth and the Three Witches after brewing a horrifying mix of animal parts, poisonous plants, human remains, that symbolize major events of the play.
*DOUBLE JEAPORDY*
What is an armed head foreshadowing his death? The bloody baby which symbolizes that no person woman born can kill him? A child holding a tree symbolizing that he will never be defeated until Birnam Wood moves to Dunsinane Hill?
The ironic physical response Lady Macbeth acts out in response to the "news" of King Duncan's murder.
What is fainting?
This royal visit is arranged to celebrate the inauguration of a new thane, announce an heir, AND celebrate the end of a war until 3 in the morning.
What is a banquet for King Duncan at Macbeth's castle?
This Scottish Lord, described as "Lesser than Macbeth, and greater", is hunted down by not two but THREE murderers.
Who is Banquo?
This is the year the Globe Theatre first produced and publicly performed The Scottish Play.
What is 1611?
Often times left out of live productions of The Scottish Play; This Goddess is responsible for guiding man kind's knowledge, and associated with keys, liminal spaces, and the occult.
Who is Hecate?
The tragic act that inspires Macbeth's soliliquy' "Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
What is Lady's death/suicide?
Why Macbeth doesn't put his armor on when he goes out to do battle with Macduff.
What is the prophecy that he can't be killed by a man born of woman?
Lady Macbeth says this about Macbeth's hesitancy to murder King Duncan.
What is: "Yet do I fear nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way".
This major surgical procedure used to deliver a baby through cuts made in the mother's abdomen and uterus is a death sentence to the Title Character when it reveals he is not as invincible as he thought.
What is C-section?
Who is Macbeth? *Macduff tells Macbeth that he was ripped from his mother's womb at an untimely moment.*
This clever way to cover the numbers of your army if you fought outside Birnam Wood was shown to our title character by three witches.
What is cutting down a branch and marching as trees?